On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:24:41AM -0500, default wrote:
> I need to add a new subnet and router interface to my FreeBSD machine (one
> nic) and a new router interface to access the subnet. I know that there is
> some sort of problem with adding aliases that makes it so one must enter
> 255.255.255.255 as the subnet mask for I.P. addresses other than the main
> one. What I was wondering is how do get around this to add another subnet,
> and how do I add the new router interface?
Yes --- this point seems to cause some confusion. The netmask that
you supply when ifconfig'ing alias interface will be 255.255.255.255
in some circumstances or eg. 255.255.255.0 (whatever the appropriate
netmask for the network is) in other cases. The distinction is
between the second (and subsequent) addresses on a subnet, and
addresses on different subnets.
An example would probably clarify things. Let's suppose that you have
two networks:
172.72.0.0/16
192.168.68.0/24
and that you need your machine to use the IP numbers 172.72.0.99,
172.72.27.27, 192.168.68.1 and 192.168.68.8, all on interface fxp0.
To configure this little lot, you would issue ifconfig commands as
follows:
ifconfig fxp0 inet 172.72.0.99 netmask 255.255.0.0 (1)
ifconfig fxp0 inet 172.72.27.27 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias (2)
ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.68.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias (3)
ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.68.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias (4)
or the equivalent in /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 172.72.0.99 netmask 255.255.0.0"
ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 172.72.27.27 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 192.168.68.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_fxp0_alias2="inet 192.168.68.8 netmask 255.255.255.255"
(1) sets up the principal address on the interface -- it doesn't
matter which address out of the four is chosen, as any of them would
work well enough. This is the source address the box will use for
itself when making connections on that network.
(2) adds another interface on the 172.72.0.0/17 network. This one
gets the "all ones" netmask, as it's the second interface on the same
subnet. Packets will only be sent out with this as a source address
in response to a connection there.
(3) adds an alias on a different subnet. It's the first address added
from that subnet, so it gets the netmask appropriate for that subnet.
This will be the default address the box uses on the 192.168.68.0/24
network.
(4) is the second address added on the 192.168.68.0/24 network, so it
gets the 255.255.255.255 netmask.
Given this setup, and assuming there are no complicating factors such
as the use of jail(8), if you telnet from the box to 172.72.56.1, then
172.72.0.99 will be used as the source address of the packets
sent. Similarly, telnet to 192.168.68.68 will use a source address of
192.168.68.1
Conversely, telnet from 172.72.56.1 to 172.72.27.27 will elicit
response packets from 172.72.27.27 as expected.
Cheers,
Matthew
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